2012-01-20

Apple iBooks 3 for Business by when?

Apple is really great they make one of the best pdf editors (preview) and one of the best ebook readers. And theres so much progress just as for education yesterday. When will they finally make a push for businesses? iBooks 3 on the horizon?

We have a couple thousand pdf's from all different vendors, release notes, configuration guides, whitepapers, business cases, financial reports, brochures etc. And I still have to use my windows machine and put notes and highlight text on them. I cannot do this in iBooks and I refuse to use GoodReader as long as it cannot directly access the pdfs from ibooks, so that I don't get copies of the documents all around.

Please finally make available the pdf annotations, including free hand, highlighting, notes, all with different colors etc.

I hope I don't have to wait for iBooks 4 (2015).

2012-01-05

osx: screenshots/screen captures via preview, grab or terminal

use preview(vorschau), grab(bildschirmfoto) application to take screenshots or use terminal.

From terminal use command screencapture.

macOS: screenshot via keyboard shortcuts


Since the introduction of universal clipboard I heavily use:

Capture a selection to the Clipboard:

Shift-Control-Command-4

Shift-Command-3Capture the screen to a file
Shift-Control-Command-3Capture the screen to the Clipboard
Shift-Command-4Capture a selection to a file
Shift-Control-Command-4Capture a selection to the Clipboard



Official keyboard shortcuts:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343

And how to change the file format from png to jpg:

http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/08/taking-screenshots-in-mac-os-x-and-changing-the-default-filetype-from-png-to-whatever/

shortcut, screenshot, hint, macOS

Why does blogger not support search of Labels??
Why does blogger not update an blog post date if updated??
Why does blogger not just die off instead of being there with no love, i.e. no state of the art feature updates.

Solved: How to get rid of Quicktime opening PDFs in Safari!!

Verified solution:

Set WebPluginTypeEnabled to NO for application/pdf in plist file ~/Library/com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist




Only problem so far, was that I need some utility to edit the plist file and a trick to access the ~/Library folder.

Program: PlistEditPro (unregistered, was able to install and use it for this purpose)
Access ~/Library: Many options available, but I preferred the finder go to and then drag the icon of the parent to the left side of finder. From there the application could access it. (I did not want to unhide the folder per se.)


I actually want a solution that I can rerun on any computer without having to install a tool, but I was not able to do this with the command defaults as it is a dictionary in a dictionary within a key and I have no clue if defaults could modify values and not only add or completely overwrite.


Some background info:

I run into this issue quite often and I did not really care, as most systems that the issue appears are not really my production systems. But now I got really fed up.

Quicktime Plug-in opens PDF but only shows 1st page, no scrolling etc. -> Very annoying!

I just spent a good 2 hours on trying to solve this problem. The internet is not what I would like it to be. I had to read about 40 webpages until I found the right solution.

I really don't know when this change came and why only some systems are affected, but alas I have found the right way to get rid of it!

defaults read com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist